MADNESS, MANIA, & THE CINEMA (PY2007)

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Analyzes alienation and delusional states psychodynamically as presented in contemporary film. First studies acute hysteria and multiple personalities (Petrie's Sybil). Then approaches the elaboration of a persecution complex (Polanski's Rosemary's Baby), amnesia and dissociation (Parker's Angel Heart), and psychotic breakdown Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly or The Hour of the Wolf).

Code: 
PY2007
Name: 
MADNESS, MANIA, & THE CINEMA
Discipline: 
PY (Psychology)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
College Level=Sophomore
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. The goal of this course is to develop the students’ observational skills, to improve their ability to describe, both orally and in writing, what they have observed, and to apply standard diagnostic criteria whenever possible.
  2. There will also be an emphasis on underlying motivation (whenever relevant) and the evolution of the severe pathologies under study.

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